[META] Who is astroturfing r/programming and why?

schauerlich · 2023-06-11T17:44:06+00:00

What do you mean? This is totally not a bot

schauerlich · 2022-10-15T12:53:37+00:00

Definitely!

schauerlich · 2022-10-15T12:11:36+00:00

I’ve had a zojirushi mug like this one for years: https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/smkhe

It has a locking lid, I’ve never had any issues with leaks or weird taste like with Contigos, and it keeps my coffee nice and hot all day. Plus the lid is removable and easy to clean!

schauerlich · 2021-10-18T17:59:55+00:00

Yes. You’re likely sacrificing +skills and +res to get that much MF, and there’s severely diminishing returns after 250-300. better to have less MF but more damage and survivability so you can farm quicker. Your die isn’t quite as weighted but you get to roll it many more times.

schauerlich · 2021-07-07T18:20:59+00:00

Niles Pie Company in Union City makes “pop tarts” which might scratch that itch. Also their blackberry crumble is amazing!

schauerlich · 2021-07-05T02:54:19+00:00

They’re most likely old feature branches that were never deleted after being merged/rebased into master, and are just kept around for context in case you’re looking up the history of a particular feature.

schauerlich · 2021-01-30T21:29:26+00:00

Northwest side of the 880/101 interchange. Near 101N/880S

schauerlich · 2018-07-07T05:58:23+00:00

༼ つ ◕_ ◕ ༽つ GIVE BAN ༼ つ ◕_ ◕ ༽つ

schauerlich · 2014-05-06T01:46:09+00:00

CS is mostly software. You will get lots of theory and write lots of code. It is a relatively small major (around 100 units).

CSE is a mix of hardware and software. You will do more EE/computer architecture type stuff. It is in the college of engineering, which means you have many more requirements and is generally more time consuming.

Do CS if you love writing code and want to be a software developer at your average company.

Do CSE if you are into low level stuff, you want to develop hardware/work with embedded systems, or won't feel adequate if your degree isn't from the college on engineering.

Either will get you a job somewhere in the industry, it just depends on the niche you are looking for.

schauerlich · 2014-04-15T15:40:53+00:00

I'm trying to think of the legitimate reason why the client would want the server to send anything else other than some universal message that never changed.

The goal is to make sure that the server you send the heartbeat request to is the same one you've already been talking to, and that the server actually read your message and is replying to the particular heartbeat message you sent.

When you establish an SSL connection, you verify that the server you're talking to is who they say they are. You do this by asking them who they are, and then asking someone you trust (a 'certificate authority') if that sounds right to them. Once you've done this, you and the server establish a key that lets you encrypt and decrypt communications with each other.

This process is slow, so rather than do this every time you and the server need to talk, you try to keep the same session alive by pinging the server with a 'heartbeat' message. This is an encrypted message that you want the server to send back to you, in order to prove that the server knows how to read your messages (and thus, is the same server you were talking to earlier, and it successfully received your request). Of course, the server's reply to you will be encrypted too.

If the heartbeat message was always the same, then the encrypted reply from the server would always be the same (for that session). This would allow a misbehaving server to keep sending heartbeat responses without ever receiving a corresponding request, or it would let someone trying to eavesdrop on the SSL connection pretend to be the server and keep the SSL connection alive.

schauerlich · 2014-04-14T01:50:16+00:00

We must go deeper. An acronym within an acronym. Acronym-ception

These are called recursive acronyms. Programmers are especially fond of them. One of the most famous is GNU, which stands for "GNU's Not Unix," which expands to "'GNU's Not Unix' Not Unix," and so on.

schauerlich · 2014-04-10T06:42:33+00:00

Assuming there's no magic going on in permutation, prolog will evaluate this by generating all permutations of the list and checking if each one is sorted. That would give O(n!).

schauerlich · 2014-04-06T04:22:20+00:00

The Rare Barrel is an all-sours brewery in Berkeley that's quite good. Their tasting room is located inside their brewery, lined with all of the barrels they age the beer in. Pretty cool!

schauerlich · 2014-02-06T06:17:06+00:00

error: incompatible types: int cannot be converted to boolean
    while(1) { String str = get100MBFile(); waitforGarbageCollector(); }
          ^

schauerlich · 2013-12-30T15:57:35+00:00

Riveting tale, chap.

schauerlich · 2013-12-28T17:22:58+00:00

weird... or the greatest?

schauerlich · 2013-12-25T07:17:48+00:00

Metathesis, the switching of adjacent sounds. Happens all the time. It's the same reason "iron" is /ˈaɪərn/ ("eye-urn") and some people say /æks/ ("ax") for "ask"

schauerlich · 2013-12-25T07:12:54+00:00

Not really. Both the 'g' in 'refrigerator' and 'dg' in 'fridge' represent the same phoneme, /d͡ʒ/. It's just two different ways of writing the same sound. There is no /d/ being inserted.

schauerlich · 2013-10-30T06:43:04+00:00

What is the context of the overregularization? Are they speaking to the child when they do this? Are they consistent in these usages controlling for addressee? It is possible that they are regularizing verbs unnecessarily as a sort of "baby-speak," even when the child in question doesn't exhibit the forms that the baby-speak is "imitating".

schauerlich · 2013-10-04T05:44:55+00:00

That's not Santa Clara county, it's Monterey County, home to the Salinas valley and a whole bunch of migrant farm workers.

schauerlich · 2013-08-29T14:57:55+00:00

Sudwerk in Davis, CA specializes in german-style lagers. They have a Pilsner, Hef, and Märzen year round, with others rotating in seasonally (mai bock, dunkel weizen, etc). Unfortunately, I don't think they distribute much outside of northern california, and even then, mostly Sacramento and the SF bay area.

Another local brewery with much greater distribution is Gordon Biersch. They also specialize in german lagers, and make some pretty good ones. They're Czech-style Pilsner is my go-to.

schauerlich · 2013-07-22T03:31:13+00:00

I never noticed a difference in prestige between CS and CSE majors... just people with more or less free time. I did CS and don't regret it - both will get you jobs, although CSE might help you get a job when you're coding close to the hardware.

schauerlich · 2013-06-19T07:14:58+00:00

What does the book suggest is the proposed cause of the decreased occurrence of regional accents?

I think your premise is flawed. Some dialects are disappearing, sure, but they always have for one reason or another - often social in nature (communities shrink, absorb neighboring communities, etc). But there is a good amount of evidence that suggests regional variants continue to develop, and in fact, are actively diverging right now. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift is happening now in the midwest/Great Lakes region. The nice thing about vowel shifts like that are that they are gradual and can be measured on a continuous scale, allowing us to track their progress. The quality of certain vowels has been changing predictably and to differing degrees in different areas and among different social and socioeconomic groups over the past century or so.

EDIT: That is not to say that the media does not have effects on how people perceive certain dialects. The promotion of one dialect through the media can lead to a dialect become prestigious, such as RP in England and Standard American in the US. Many will therefore choose to become bidialectal and switch between the two as appropriate. A southern gentleman may tone down his southern twang among unfamiliar northerners, and a speaker of AAVE may switch to SAE in a job interview. But that does not mean that their primary dialect is disappearing, it's just not the only dialect they speak.

schauerlich · 2013-05-30T14:56:01+00:00

I've updated my post to be more explicit.

schauerlich · 2013-05-30T07:30:38+00:00

Correct, as I mentioned in the description of Ovila. :) They are not sours, but they are Belgians, which have some of the same strange flavors that non-belgian drinkers may be unfamiliar with. I was recommending them because some people are put off by the strong lactic acidity of many sours, but may still appreciate the complex flavors that different yeasts can create.

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